Heather in ATL - #travelingphotographer

I never wrote a blog post about this cool shoot I did in Atlanta last year, so here it is. Better late than never, hey! So, Heather is the daughter of my friend and fellow Okinawa Hai blogger, Dasha. Dasha hired me to do Heather's senior photos back when we were all in Okinawa in 2009 I want to say. Well, since then, Heather 'adulted' and became a super duper intelligent linguistics person and moved to Augusta, Georgia. So, one day I post on my facebook page that I am traveling to Atlanta...

Heather replies that she would love to book a shoot. So, that's what happened. We met up in ATL. It was super hot and humid but we shot around the 'little five points' area and had a blast!

 

The owner of this shop kindly let us use this space as the light was so amazing!

I love this in b+w too

The royal Heather :)

The street art in the area was captivating...

Again love a b+w conversion. Sometimes I go for a traditional, clean b+w, sometimes a more vintage artsy one like this...

Heather rocked it as I knew she would...

Here are a couple with the shoes for Mum, Dasha

I love this!

3 or 4 outfit changes later and it was a wrap and we went for a veggie wrap in one of the cool little cafes in the area :)

Thank you Heather for once again trusting in my vision, coming up with cool collaborations and being a great person x

On the way home, I stopped at Oakland Cemetery - I was in sea foam green and turquoise heaven!

and then Savannah's Bonaventure...I just love Mausoleums :)

Until next time, happy travels!

*If you are interested in mausoleum shots - check out my etsy shop :)

Project 52 - 2012

My Project 52 from 2012. The first time I've ever completed one!
Taken with my Nikon DSLR or my iPhone!
Without further ado..ENJOY!

Light: There is ALWAYS light at the end of the tunnel!

Texture: It's everywhere in grungy Okinawa!

Water: water drop on newborn sakura

Reflection: Refection of myself! Mini me!

Black and White: Iwakuni!

Silhouette: The kids at Gala, I'm going to call this 'dream'

Colour: Splash of pink! (and a strip of blue)

Isolation: Isolating sea at Okuma and the isolation of helplessness. My weekend:
I knew I was going to Okuma and I love 'winter' at Okuma, it's quiet, the sea has crazy colours, but then my son ended up being rushed to hospital for asthma and that is also isolation. Isolation being so far from a hospital and the isolating feeling of not being able to help your child who is fighting for breath. (He's good now ♥) So I thought I would make a collage of my life this weekend!

Vintage: Vintage? It's def. old school! Processed like I used to process in the darkroom. Nikon FM w/ Ilford 400 and homemade edges!

Details: Peacock POW

Peaceful: Isolated beaches are peaceful to me and the colours in the winter sea!

Shape: The shape of Okinawa!

Line: Horizon line and shadow lines

Chaos: Weather chaos

Metal: Metal, rusty grungy metal, lots of it!

Doors: or doorways!

Nature: The power and beauty of clouds

Life: This is one part of my LIFE, pretty much sums it up! My friend made me this for my b-day, LOVE it!

Motion: cloud and road motion!

Emotion: sunset emotion Grandma and Granddaughter love...

Obsessions: Where it all began! Well, if you don't count the 1970's box brownie ;o)

Culture: Dave Ralston band and Shinto Shrine Priest! Culture fusion

Perspective: A NYC Perspective! I LOVE NYC!!!

Joy: My kids on Brooklyn Bridge

Softness: The sunset was amazing and so soft and dreamy...almost like a painting!

Macro: My new friend - whose tail fell of in my hand, I felt bad so I set him up with a free photoshoot!

Patriotic: of course I had to put the Union Jack up LOL (got sex pistols in my head!) This is some shop window reflection in NYC!

Blur: Butterfly Bokeh Blur!

High: HIGH ON LIFE! This is my zen at the end of the day!

Low: a LOWbow in Nago! This was a lucky sighting by April and a quick random stop the car and grab the camera!

Abandoned: abandoned building wall...NYC

Complementary: Complementary colours and light! 10,000 Eisa 2012

Separation: Low aperture separation (between subject and background!)

Opposites: sun cloud:rain cloud!

New: New day. April Just woken up! She is so beautiful!

Food: Homemade Pesto!

Sweet: A bit different to my normal style but my sweet child and the heart that flared under her! Sweet as!

Old: Random old man I shot with the iPhone!

Text: Graffiti 'text' my fav kind!

Enchanted: Enchanted island ship

Breathe: Breathe, breathe in the air...

Free:

Night: Okinawa Lantern

Shadows: shop shadows

Temptations: The CONSTANT temptation I have when I am driving and see an image in my head and HAVE to turn the car around to go and capture it LOL Drives me nuts!

Food: Nothing really artistic about this...but it's my entry for 'food' liquid food!

Thankful: I am thankful for photography and living near the sea and shells and a micro lens and lots of other obvious things like my kids, family, health etc etc etc

Anything goes: Harry-Dog

Winter: Winter in American Village

12: 121212 I saw Jesus in the sky!

Family: Some nice Japanese stranger offered to take our photo. Family minus the dog

End of Year:

  
YES! Completed my first Project 52! And I'm going to try again for 2013!!!